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Key to the Door (1961), Brian is keen to help the Malayan communists (Anthony Burgess called Sillitoe's depiction of them "woefully ignorant and naive"); 27 years later, in
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We have no trace in our records of this man, nor are we satisfied that there are any reliable grounds for regarding him as a security risk, Sir Percy Sillitoe, then head of MI5, told the chief police commissioner in South Africa, where Chaplin was planning a visit.
MI5 spied on Charlie Chaplin after FBI asked for help to banish him from US 2012
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In the prose style of your novel, as well as in its concern for the inner reflections of a troubled youth, some readers may catch echoes of Burgess and Sillitoe.
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Alan Sillitoe, Willy Russell, Arnold Wesker, Laurie Lee, John McVicar, John Cooper Clarke, Linton Kwesi Johnson were among the featured writers, as well as writers for schools, theatre and film programmes and a national poetry competition judged by the relatively unknown UA Fanthorpe and Andrew Motion.
Letters: No go leads to no show when it comes to the arts 2011
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Passengers were delayed in Vienna until they gave the airline £20,000, Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian
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Sillitoe lived briefly overseas with Ruth Fainlight, the American poet he married in 1959, but later returned to Britain.
Alan Sillitoe Dead: 'Angry Young Men' Leader Dies At 82 2010
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Sillitoe, a leading member of the 1950s group of so-called angry young men of British fiction, was acclaimed for his uncompromising social criticism and depiction of domestic tensions – often dubbed kitchen sink dramas.
Alan Sillitoe Dead: 'Angry Young Men' Leader Dies At 82 2010
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In 2007, Sillitoe published "Gadfly In Russia," an account of four decades of travel through Russia.
Alan Sillitoe Dead: 'Angry Young Men' Leader Dies At 82 2010
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Sillitoe, a leading member of the 1950s group of so-called angry young men of British fiction, was acclaimed for his uncompromising social criticism and depiction of domestic tensions – often dubbed kitchen sink dramas.
Alan Sillitoe Dead: 'Angry Young Men' Leader Dies At 82 2010
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Born in 1928, Sillitoe left school at the age of 14 and worked in factories.
Alan Sillitoe Dead: 'Angry Young Men' Leader Dies At 82 2010
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